Costa Rica is a small country, geographically situated in the Central American isthmus, with 2.2 million inhabitants. Although its exports are mainly of an agricultural nature, the country has reached a level of welfare ...

This paper analyses economic flows over the lifecycle in Ecuador, a middle-income country that
is anticipating rapid population ageing. Using the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) framework, the
paper develops estimates ...

Geriatric depression and cognition impairment, including memory loss, are common neuropsychiatric
disorders at old age. Diagnosing these conditions in the context of a general population-based survey
conducted by nonmental ...

Background: The Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica has one of the highest old-age life expectancies in the world, but the underlying biological mechanisms of this longevity are not well understood. As DNA methylation is ...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to address the hypothesis that Amerindian
ancestry is associated with extended longevity in the admixed population of Nicoya,
Costa Rica. The Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica has been ...

There is uncertainty about whether biological and anthropometric measures that are
clinical risk factors for disease are universally associated with chronological age,
or whether these correlations vary depending on the ...

We investigate the heterogeneity across countries and time in the relationship
between mother’s fertility and children’s educational attainment—the quantity-quality
(Q-Q) trade-off—by using census data from 17 countries ...

Background: Some existing estimates suggest, controversially, that life expectancy at age 60 (LE60) of Latin American males is exceptionally high. Knowledge of adult mortality in Latin America is often based on unreliable ...

Alterations in the monoaminergic neurotransmission systems are suspected to be involved in the
etiology of neuropsychiatric disorders, including depression. The role of these pathways in the risk of
developing depressive ...